Wednesday, January 18, 2012

U-God's Resume #29, Inspectah Deck “Longevity”

Well I think I pretty much slammed this album into oblivion last week, but I'll summarize my thoughts for all the new readers: Deck's debut album SUCKED even though Deck brought the ill shit lyrically. Why: Deck has the worst production ever. The last song we checked out was The Grand Prix, which had good lyrics over an awful beat. Deck and U-God just killed the track but there wasn't much to kill except for a generic trumpet loop. Bad beats. Bad trumpets. Bad loops. Will that trend continue into this song Longevity?

Let's find out...

"Longevity"

This beat is much better than last week's mess, but don't take that as a compliment: it's still not that good. It sounds like generic Wu. The chorus is okay, but once again it's Wu Vanilla. Nothing innovative until Deck comes in to spit. His first verse is okay but not that good. But then things change for the better...for the much better. After the second chorus U-God comes in for the second verse and something great happens: he spits a dope verse that completely rides the beat and hits hard like a pimp on a movie. It's nothing that would ever land on the radio, but it's good. Head nod shit...

Yo, the message in my music grab you, stuck in my sentenceGot to spit from the bottomless pit, speakin' my vengeanceMasked avenger never surrender my heritageKillah Hill resident, 5'10" be my measurementOn land we stand under flags as confederatesYou think you rule, pity the fool when the shell dropsIt's hot, bodies scream to the extreme, damn, I'm delicateWe livin irreverent, intelligent, dirty habitThey full of fragments, abandon all ten commandmentsDamage is done as the records spin, hatred in my features untamed

That's good. But Deck smartly follows U with another verse with no chorus split, he keeps the cypher moving and his verse is pure fire. This is the type of shit that Deck is known for, this is Deck playing all his cards and DAMN it's good:

About this series: U-God’s Resume" is a series of posts which looks at each line of U-God’s entire career to determine if his status as ‘wack’ is justified (as labeled by internetmorons). I think it is not. U-God is dope. We'll prove it. Leave it to the Tort Team.

My rhyme cold winds clear streets and slams shuttersBasic Instinct to tear the roof off the motherDrastic verbal gymnastics, far from the averageHold the planet like Galactus

Lone Ranger, ancesters rolled with stone bangersNever met a force deadly as my own angerClutch performer, raised on the blood soaked cornersof real life with real tight heads, that prey on ya

Shit. That is amazing. Those few lines should be singled out, pull their own review, and land a perfect score. It's a shame jems like this gut buried in this pile of trash of an album (production wise). That verse deserved a better beat. It deserved the best beat. Fuck the producers for slacking on this shit. Deck deserves better.

Yo! You mixtape heads out there, you should remix this entire album and keep absolutely none of the original production. That would be a smart move, sucka. So smarten up and remix this shit already, jeez.